Thursday, February 5, 2015

But let justice roll on like a
river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!(Amos 5:24)

I don’t believe in ghosts. But the deaths of Tonya Reaves
and LaKisha Wilson haunt me, frequently breaking my rest – two young women,
vibrant women taken away by the substandard care provided in the abortion
arena. Their deaths are reminders of the injustice foisted on women through
abortion. Let me explain. Tonya Reaves
died in a Planned Parenthood abortion center located at 18 S. Michigan Avenue.
This location is important to note because according to their website they are
not equipped to perform surgical abortions. In the deposition given by the
doctor that performed the abortion, over a five hour period she went back in
and scraped Tonya’s uterus an additional two times but was not able to complete
the abortion. Five hours after she began, she finally called for an ambulance
that did not arrive for another thirty minutes.
Six and a half hours after the procedure was initiated the trauma hospital
where she was taken was able to successfully complete the abortion. Sadly,
eleven hours after the procedure was
started, the hospital found an uncontrollable bleed, but was unable to save Tonya’s
life when she coded during the surgery.

To me and others it seemed that Mandy Gittler, the
abortionist in this case, did not care about Tonya or her life. Gittler had no
sense of urgency to get lifesaving help to her patient, instead she chose to focus on doing other abortions in between scraping
Tonya’s insides. Gittler was almost cavalier in her responses during
her deposition when she blamed Tonya’s (nonexistent) two chamber uterus. Later
Gittler stated Tonya did not want to go the hospital because she “felt fine”,
despite the notes in the record that she had heavy bleeding throughout her
ordeal. Gittler did what Tonya could not, she walked away from the abortion
center all the while assigning blame to her patient, her supervisor and even
Tonya’s mother!

LaKisha, according to her record, visited several abortion
centers in the Cleveland area before landing at Preterm on Shaker Blvd.
Claiming they provide safe, compassionate abortion care, she trusted them to
terminate her pregnancy. Unfortunately, the care LaKisha received that fateful
day in March was neither safe nor compassionate. Information recently received
in the prolife community reveals Preterm broke the laws of the State of Ohio
because Lakisha was more than the legally allowed 20 weeks pregnant. But Preterm
has friends in the Ohio Health Department that swept the violations under the
proverbial rug. Ohio ignored the gestational age of the child and ignored the
fact that Preterm did not meet facility codes because the building elevator was
broken. The EMTs could not quickly evacuate Lakisha and even if it hadn’t been
broken they could not have used a gurney to get her out because the elevator
was too small. There were a plethora of other things that confirmed Preterm’s
disdain for LaKisha’s life including a lack of a sense of urgency to get her
the help she needed. The worker that placed the call for an ambulance could not
give the operator vitally needed information to get immediate assistance and
when she reported LaKisha was not breathing - at all - and we learned later she
was not breathing for more than 28 minutes, she did not sound like she cared.

For reasons that are not clear to me, it appears
abortionists get a pass on maintaining the standards of quality care other
physicians are held to. Even nail salons and veterinarians are held to a higher standard than
abortionists. When it comes to abortion, state after state has turned a blind
eye, allowing violations of laws designed to protect the patient. It is not
uncommon to hear of injuries to women
including death, rape, unsanitary conditions, overmedicating the patient,
failing to notify parents or obtain their consent where required, failure to
report statutory rape and a host of other violations. Kermit Gosnell’s house of
horror in Pennsylvania is but one of many examples of the lack of action by the
state. Now we have Lakisha’s death and it is clear the state of Ohio ignored
the violations of the law. There are many examples of abortionists violating
the laws and only when they have done so numerous times, will a state take
action to shut them down. Pendergast in Florida, Finkel in Arizona, Patel in
Oklahoma, Virmani in North Carolina,
Alexander in Michigan are just a few of the abortionists that lost their
licenses after a long list of violations of state law.

Last year a huge battle erupted in Texas. The state decided
to require abortion centers to meet the standards of medical care required of
surgical centers and physicians. The abortion industry sent paid operatives
into that state to protest the state’s interest in protecting women from
substandard care. These operatives used vile words and body waste to express
their disdain for the state, for children in the womb and women. Some of them
chanted “hail satan” while vilifying the pro-lifers who were praying and
singing hymns.

The politics of
abortion have prevented these women and others from receiving justice. The politics of abortion allows callous
abortionists to destroy the babies in the womb and their mothers without repercussion. We can no longer allow “the rights of a life developing in
the womb” to “outweigh the rights of the person carrying it, or that she has an
obligation once pregnant to provide society with a live, full-term infant” as one pro-abortion supporter bragged. Nor can we
continue allowing women, mostly Black, mostly poor, to be destroyed in the name
of reproductive rights. It is time to …let justicerollon like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
(Amos 5:24). Yes, it is time for justice and righteousness to once again
prevail – for the babies, for Tonya, for Lakisha.

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